Quote by Charles Baudelaire
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. – Charles Baudelaire

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Our religion is itself profoundly sad – a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each mans own language – so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. – Charles Baudelaire

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. – Seamus Heaney

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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